The 2013 Game Developer Gender Wage Gap: “The next time someone tells me that men and women get paid equally for their talents in the game industry, I wanted something to link to them. This is just plain disgusting.”

Why I’m Glad For Lambda Ladies: “Earlier this week, an awesome group of women that I’m a part of started Lambda Ladies, a group for women interested in functional programming… The response so far has been pretty overwhelmingly positive, but I also saw some skepticism on Twitter about the need for such a group and I wanted to give a little background about why I think it’s a good idea.”

Crowdsourced hate speech database could spot early signs of genocide: “Front-end users can log on to the website and add examples of hate speech from their communities, and also record location-specific “sightings,” while developers can use an authenticating API that allows them to mesh Hatebase data with other tools for genocide prevention.”

The Beginnings of CONsent: “I presented cosplayers with a wipe off board, simply reading “Cosplay =/= Consent” and asked them about their experiences of harassment. I was not surprised to hear many horrible stories from women and men alike.”

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2 thoughts on “I prefer the fanon linkspam (12 April 2013)”

The hate speech database currently has quality control issues. It lists the following words: mansplaining, cis male. People keep trying to label them as hate speech. Also, it lists tranny and shemale under sexual orientation. I can’t take it seriously.

Yeah, I’m not impressed so far; the site admins’ response to things like MRAs hijacking the site to define words like “mansplaining” as hate speech is to freeze the entry to prevent editing, leaving the MRA definition up there as truth.